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By Carol Grisanti in Islamabad
Shame and anger best describes the feelings of many Pakistanis to fresh allegations of match fixing by their national cricket stars. When the “News of the World,” a popular British tabloid, exposed a scam on Sunday involving a conspiracy by members of Pakistan’s cricket team to defraud U.K. bookmakers, [...]

By Kerry Sanders, NBC News correspondent
ABOARD THE JEAN CHARCOT - We saw our first pictures of the Titanic wreckage in 3-D, high-def early this morning. I expected euphoria, maybe cheering,  in the command room of the Jean Charcot, the research vessel that’s documenting the Titanic debris before it disintegrates. Instead, there was an intense silence.
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By Kerry Sanders, NBC News Correspondent
ABOARD THE JEAN CHARCOT – As we continue to float two-plus miles above the wreck of the Titanic, there was a significant scientific development Friday.
The Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) nicknamed “Ginger” and “Mary Ann” that were launched earlier this week to crisscross the ocean floor and retrieve [...]

By Kerry Sanders, NBC News Correspondent
ABOARD THE JEAN CHARCOT – The wind and the seas have not been cooperating with a group of scientists’ effort to document the debris field where the Titanic sank in the middle of the North Atlantic.
Strong 30 mile-per-hour winds delayed efforts to launch high-tech autonomous underwater vehicles [...]

A team of underwater archeologists, maritime engineers, technicians and explorers are trying to do what’s never been done before: document every inch of the debris field where the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912.
NBC News’ Kerry Sanders is with the scientists aboard the Jean Charcot research vessel in the North Atlantic. On Thursday [...]